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Devil in a Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley (also rec’d by James Patterson & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar )

The book that made me want to be a writer was—again, too young, shouldn’t have been reading it— Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. I read it and it made me realize, up until then I had been a fan of all kinds of mystery, horror, and sci-fi, and they were all white writers. You know: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers, and all of that. And Ellery Queen (I love Ellery Queen). But reading Devil in a B...

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